Generally, the traumatic symptoms of chinchillas are skin damage and slight bleeding. For minor trauma, you only need to cut the hair near the injured area short first, use iodophor for disinfection, and other anti-inflammatory ointments can also be used. If the wound is serious and the bleeding is large for a deep wound, you can apply Yunnan Baiyao to stop bleeding and reduce inflammation, or send it to a pet hospital for bandage and confirm whether there are any fractures. Chinchillas have a strong self-healing ability. Generally, chinchillas can recover quickly from trauma. However, you should stop bathing your chinchillas before they recover from trauma.

Usually when chinchillas just come out of the cage or when the chinchilla babies are trying to grab milk to drink, they are prone to fights. Intense fights can lead to trauma to the chinchillas. It is best for the breeder to keep an eye on the strange chinchillas for the first few hours when they are in the cage. If a fight occurs, they should be separated immediately. When chinchillas let loose, they can easily injure themselves. But don’t mistake chinchilla fungal infection for chinchilla trauma, because the hair in the affected area of ​​fungal infection becomes sparse and quickly develops to completely naked and exposed skin. The bald area may have thick skin, blisters, ulcers, pustules, and dandruff. and other adverse symptoms.